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Record Nr.

UNINA9910746990903321

Autore

Cohen Matt

Titolo

The Silence of the Miskito Prince : How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Piraí : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

9781452968254

9781517913953

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 pages)

Disciplina

973.2

Soggetti

Intercultural communication - North America - History

Settler colonialism - North America

North America Historiography

North America Colonization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cosmopuritanism -- Believing in piety -- Waiting for the beginning -- Rethinking reciprocity -- Beyond understanding.

Sommario/riassunto

"How can we tell colonial histories in ways that invite intercultural conversation within humanistic fields that are themselves products of colonial domination? Focusing on the first two centuries of North American colonization, Matt Cohen explores this question by looking critically at five concepts frequently used to imagine solutions to the challenges of cross-cultural communication: understanding, cosmopolitanism, piety, reciprocity, and patience"--